retrieval
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Women going through egg retrieval “deserve the same grace we’d extend to anyone recovering from surgery,” says Lauren Makler, the CEO and founder of the fertility-education platform Cofertility.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
Marvell’s chips and accelerators should be even more valuable in a world driven by agentic AI, seeing as the technology requires continuous loops of reasoning, tool use, memory retrieval, and task coordination.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
I ask it to give me a hint that forces my brain to complete the retrieval.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
All 13 retrieval teams UK-wide will be asked to increase their workload despite already being at capacity and without extra funding.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
Ridgeway worked retrieval, heading north when constables sent word they’d captured a runaway from Virginia or North Carolina.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing retrieval
Psychology
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